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...November, a number of interesting races are shaping up. Among them: OHIO. Democrat Stephen Young, 80, is retiring; two of the state's most popular Republicans are bruising each other in their rush to take his place. James Rhodes, the highly successful two-term Governor, and Congressman Robert Taft Jr., who hopes to follow in his famed father's footsteps, are headed for a punishing primary that only Democrats will enjoy. Despite allegations of misconduct leveled against him by LIFE magazine, Rhodes is no underdog to the stolid Taft. Democrats expect that in their primary, former Astronaut John...
...this man? He visited the Union two years ago. His high run is 153 balls in straight pool and 11 racks of nine ball. Can you play nine ball? He lived in the Taft Hotel in New York for five years and he played across the street at Guys and Dolls. He lived a simple and happy life. Then six months ago he met a mysterious woman, and he borrowed $800 to keep her happy. Now the money and the woman are all gone, and bad men are looking for him. His name is Boston Joey. You can help. Send...
Willie and the girl, Lolita, lit out for the Mohave Desert. He could normally have hidden on tiny reservations until the trouble blew over, since Indian killing was a matter of little concern to the white community. But at that time, it happened that President Taft was making a cross-country tour, followed by a bored and weary press corps looking for a story to break the whistle-stop monotony. They found what they wanted in Riverside, Calif...
...undergone, the Senate retains its lacquered snuffboxes. Among the more insistent traditions has been the conservative leadership of the Republican Party. In the past 20 years, the post has been held by such stalwarts of the right as Nebraska's Kenneth Wherry, Ohio's Robert A. Taft and California's William F. Knowland...
...studying Nixon and four other Presidents, Barber evolved a labeling system that types each man according to his character (positive or negative) and his way of life (active or passive). By these standards, he characterized President Taft as "passive-positive," Truman as "active-positive" and Eisenhower as "passive-negative." Lest anyone accuse him of showing partisanship, Barber listed, along with Nixon, under the heading of "active-negative" a man whose "style failed him" and who knew "the disorientation of an expert middleman elevated above the ordinary political marketplace"-Lyndon Baines Johnson...